Some 40 people were preventively evacuated from a building near to European Union headquarters in Brussels after a bomb threat was sent to a company linked to the EU.
Police spokeswoman Ilse Van de Keere said a “telephone bomb threat” was made Tuesday morning to a consulting office linked to the EU’s executive Commission and that it has been taken seriously.
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Part of the street has been sealed off and sniffer dogs have been sent to the scene.
The operation was still ongoing around noon local time (1100 GMT).
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